shearer then go to a stones concert with an mp3 player and listen to beast of and your song wishes during their show.just watch the show. so you can get what you want.
----------------------------------------------------- Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Saw the Stones at the Forum last week. It was the best show I have ever seen (and I saw the Stones in 73). I'm a Macca fan, have seen him over 20 times, including 5 times on the most recent tour. Macca's tours are nicely packaged, audience friendly shows, with every detail, including moving solo acoustic sets and in-between-song stories worked out in advance. I take clients and they all enjoy it. The Stones on the other hand, are unpredictable, sometimes ragged, always loud -- there are no long between-song "chats" and at most one ballad. I don't take clients, only family and friends, and frankly, because I want to get up and rock, and there is just no comparison. McCartney's show is a well-oiled machine. The Stones are the greatest live rock and roll band in history.
Paul McCartney deserves respect, no doubt about that. Too bad, that Ferrante doesn't make good McCartney-publicity. It makes you wanting to avoid Paul, after reading these pointless, horrible YELLING.
All of us should be fortunate that we are seeing them live now as opposed to the mid 60's. As their set length was then and said Keith a few years ago, the ideal ROCK show would last 20-30 minutes before the audience would go crazy and stop the show.
McCartney's shows are ho hum. Sure he plays a long time, like Elton John, but do you get that excited? Is there even an opportunity to break a sweat jammin/slammin/dancin' on the floor or in the aisle? I've been to all three and the ONLY artist/band of these three classics that can create that kind of energy in the audience is the Stones. As great as the music is for McCartney and Elton, I would much rather stay at home and listen to the cd and save a buttload of cash. Their songs RARELY change from the studio version anyway, whereas the Stones have in the past and currently when performing Back of My Hand, and even many of their warhorses have slightly or even significantly different arrangements from the studio version. That is ANOTHER reason why you go see the Stones. Most of all, the Stones can and do what neither McCartney nor Elton can or will do, and that is JAM! Keith will go off and take some of the warhorses like JJF and Satisfaction to new levels and sometimes long lengths and that doesn't include the eleven or twelve minute blues fest known to us as one of the greatest live songs ever, Midnight Rambler.
I agree it would be nice if the Stones played maybe 25 songs, but they play many more shows and in many more cities than the other two on their most recent tour.
Lastly, what is the fascination with Beast of Burden? It's ok, but they have a truck full of tunes better than that one. Personally, I'll take almost any other tune from Some Girls instead of Beast of Burden. Give me Shattered!
Nice site, for ya, Ferrante. Check it out, educate them, while playing Beast Of Burden really loud on the stereo, immediately followed by When I'm 64...
I would take 20 Stones over 36 Macca songs anyday, although Macca is one of the best rock and roll singers ever and a hell of a bass player, too. But if you want to see the girls dance in their stilettos, IT IS THE STONES BABY. The Fabulous Forum rocked like the Whisky A Go Go last Monday. The best Stones show ever in Boss Angeles, I have seen plenty. Maybe number two on my all time best shows. Number one goes to that little purple guy from Minnesota at the Kodak theater 2002. That being said, there ain't no party like a Rolling Stones party.
I don't know anything about Macca or his music- I admit that.
I do know that he came to Canada a couple of weeks ago to make a big fuss about the seal hunt. He probably spent $100,000 to fly up here in a fancy plane and expedition suit to tell a bunch of natives that they should abandon the only way they can make a living so that Macca could have a good photo op.
He was practically run out of Canada and every newspaper wrote an editorial on a what a foolish out of touch, hypocrite he is. The fact is he probably spends more on jet fuel in a year than a whole inuit village earns hunting seals.
----------------------------------------------------- Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Reptile Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Actually, Ferrante is not that bad. He's a pretty cool guy if you think about it. You have to be very smart, like me, though.
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Reptile Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Very funny. Let's count yours too. It'll be hard since they go all the way up your back.
Yeah, they don't call me "Cindy Skunkback" for nothing.
I cannot believe that length of show is an issue, remember on the 72-73 tour they only played for 70-80 minutes. Even the 78 tour was short compared to this tour. We've all been spoilt by 2.5 hour shows, the boys do more in 2 hours than most 'performers' could do in 6 hours.
I've seen Macca, and while it was a good show, it wasn't a concert it was a performance. I might as well have seen Rent, because that play has been rehearsed as many times as Macca's set. He plays the same songs every time. Most of his back up band does the playing, and he just sits there.
The Stones, Paul, recent versions of The Who and Page/Plant were ALL F...ing great and having been too young to see them in the 60s and 70s, I felt fortunate each time I saw them.